January 20th, 2008788 views(8)

Photography by Chreeno
Editorial by Ryan Jones
This week’s Intuned Online feature brings us the most popular choice of car for Nissan tuners; we’re featuring Chris Beardon’s 1996 240sx SE. We set out to Dallas, Texas to catch up with Chris and his Red Devil and find out what sets his car out from the crowd. The background on the 240sx is that in Japan & North America there aren’t many affordable rear wheel drive cars for sale, especially if it’s your first car. This is the start of how you create a wanting. Lucky enough for JDM enthusiasts in North America this works out perfectly. 240sx were sold domestically and the counterparts in Japan (Silvia’s) were sold with the more powerful and high potential turbo SR20 motors as well as many more options. Due to the popularity of Silvia’ and 240’s alike as well as the general rules for supply and demand, aftermarket parts companies have made hundreds of different aftermarket parts for these cars and even years after the end of production they still continue to design new parts.

Going back to Chris’ we can definitely see he has good taste starting with the full Origin Lab body kit with wider body flairs all covered in fresh velocity red pearl paint. To refresh the front end Chris used S14 Japan headlights, corners and grill for that more aggressive look. The inside was kept very simple and very clean by adding Bride Ergo II seats with a pair of Takata harnesses straight out of Super GT. When Chris popped the hood on this Red Devil we were happy to see an SR20 blacktop from a Japanese Silvia (S13). As far as any car goes this engine was clean, with a lot of custom polishing work to make it even cleaner.

Many parts from companies like Top Speed Pro-1, Koyo, Greddy & 5Zigen help keep this car running in top shape. Just before we left we were blinded by reflection of the Texas sun set coming off the lip of Chris’s deep dish rear wheels, SSR D5R’s to be exact. These wheels are staggered with 18×10.5 rears and 18×9 in the front which also hide the Brembo Gran Turismo brake kit.

We’d like to thank Chris for letting us feature his car and say that his car is one devil that’s earned some worship.

Make: Nissan
Model: 240SX
Edition: SE
Year: 1996

-SPONSOR
Dunlop Tires
Meguiar’s
Valvoline
GS Motorsport
GS Motorsports
J&M Paint & Body
Havok Group.com
Top Speed Pro-1
Will’s Discount Tires
Paul’s Powdercoating

-EXTERIOR
Mazda RX8 Velocity Red pearl paint job
Origin Lab Aggressive Front Bumper
Origin Lab Aggressive Side Skirts
Origin Lab Aggressive Rear Bumper
Origin Lab +20mm Front fenders
Origin Lab +50mm Rear fenders
Cwest style hood w/ molded in cowl
S14 Kouki headlights and corners
JDM Clear Turn signals
JDM S14 Kouki Taillights
Kouki Grill
AeroCatch hood pins w/ lock
Racin Rivets

-INTERIOR
GReddy Shift Knob
BRIDE Ergo II seats
Takata Harnesses
Nismo Floor mats
-ENGINE
SR20DET Inline 4 (S13 blacktop)
5Zigen ProRacer Aspec exhaust
Moroso Battery Relocation kit
Z32 MAF
Top Speed Pro-1 Air filter
Koyo Factory Radiator
Custom Front Mount Intercooler
Custom Polished Intercooler piping
HKS SSQ Blow off valve
Custom Fans
Walbro 255 Fuel Pump
GReddy Profec B Spec II Boost Controller
Top Speed Pro-1 Engine Torque Damper
Top Speed Pro-1 Chrome Intake Plenum
Top Speed Pro-1 Oil Catch Can
ARC Titanium Radiator Cooling Panel
Top Speed Pro-1 Polished Lightweight Pulleys
ProjectNissan Cold Pipe

-HANDLING
Apex’I ExV N1 coilovers
Brembo Gran Turismo Big Brake kit
project Mu rear brake pads
J30 VLSD
SSR D5R wheels
18×9 +/- 0mm offset
18×10.5 -26mm offset
Dunlop Direzza
225/40/18
265/35/18
Kics NeoChro Lug Nuts